Homonym and Its Effect in Facilitating Communication: A Case Study of Arabic Particles

Abstract

The punctilios scholars about safety and survival of Arabic Language paid great attention to researching on justification of that survival for the purpose of safeguarding the Glorious Qur’an from erroneous recitation, thus, the principles and rulemaking of Arabic grammar was established through the Arabic literary treasures in both prose and poetry gathered from different locations of Arabian Peninsula. However, those tremendous efforts almost fail at times therefore resulting to weakness of pure Arabic Language especially the non-Arabic speakers while applying the Arabic prepositions in sentence construction if not with the aid of “Homonym” in the field of philology. Therefore, this paper studies the impact of that homonym on facilitating and simplifying the syntactical study through the Arabic prepositions that are being regarded as a cardinal point in making coherence Arabic sentence construction. This study adopts inductive method to carry out the analysis. The research findings state that homonym has a great and obvious role in preventing non-Arabic speakers from committing syntactic blunders, and it also affirms that there is homonym in particles as it could be found in both nouns and verbs, and it discovers that homonym was logically referred to by the former noble scholars of Arabic syntax as Tanāwubul-Hurūf (Rotation of Use of particles)